The May 28 deadline for a Hamas-Fatah Palestinian government has been and gone and it is suggested it might still take another week before any announcement of a coalition cabinet. While Hamas remained publicly confident a deal would be brokered by May 29, representatives of Fatah, the party of Palestinian...

Justus Reid Weiner last week published a report for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs documenting the fate of Middle Eastern Christians. Pope Francis’s recent visit to the Middle East, according to some observers, boosted the Palestinian case for a state. However, the fate of Palestinian Christians may play a role in determining the...

Various outlets and aggregators late last week carried public reports about a string of Hamas rallies in what has until recently been the Fatah-dominated West Bank, as concerns deepened that an impending unity agreement between the two traditional Palestinian rivals would allow Hamas to halt a year-long downward spiral by...

A wide-ranging interview of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Bloomberg View columnist Jeffrey Goldberg – in which the Israeli leader emphasized Jerusalem’s determination to either bilaterally or unilaterally untangle the Jewish state from Palestinians living in the West Bank – triggered a wave of social media discussion Friday morning,...

A Turkish court acceded to the request of prosecutors and issued arrest warrants May 26 in the names of four leading Israelis for their alleged role in the 2010 Mavi Marmara episode. The demand for the arrests flies in the face of media reports and comments from Turkish leaders that...

According to a report Monday, reconciliation talks between Fatah and Hamas are progressing and the two Palestinian factions have “no disputes” on the makeup of a consensus government. Ma’an reports on comments made by Fatah negotiator, Azzam al-Ahmad: “I think this is the final meeting before forming the government. We...